"Senators negotiating a bill mandating background checks for all gun buyers are privately expecting the National Rifle Association not to fight the measure -- provided the legislation does not require private gun sellers to maintain records of the checks, NBC News has learned..."

IF this is true, it's complete and utter B.S. I encourage every NRA member and gun owner to light up their switchboard.

Opposition lying about "common sense", "most gun owners", "our poll of gun owners says",... and all the other lies they push, to create the veil of legitimacy they need to take away our rights. Nothing is real when created from smoke and mirrors.

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than any truth that is conceived." -Anonymous

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(from the story) "If that requirement is met and key Republican negotiator Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma signs on, the powerful gun lobby has signaled to lawmakers that they would not actively oppose the bill -- and not count votes in favor of it as part of its highly influential NRA lawmaker ratings..." (my bold)

Think what you may, but I have enough direct and indirect experience with politicians and the NRA to know that the above can be, and quite possibly is true.

It's all about parsing things, and not denying/speaking to certain things.

During jury selection the other week, I had a federal judge tell me the NRA is a civil rights organization, in the same list as NAACP, ACLU, and LULAC. Actually, NRA was third on the list.

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I have counted on NBC to feed me the straight dope ever since they broke that story decades ago about the propensity of GM trucks to become infernos during side collisions (with the help of flaming rockets during "reenactments")...

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I have counted on NBC to feed me the straight dope ever since they broke that story decades ago about the propensity of GM trucks to become infernos during side collisions (with the help of flaming rockets during "reenactments")...

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Weren't NBC also the ones who doctored the 911 call from the Trayon Martin case where Zimmerman said "Hes up to no good... he's black?"

Seems as if Senator Leahy didn't care to represent Vermont's constutiuents or the Vermont and US Constitutions.

WASHINGTON — A divided Senate Judiciary Committee approved a Democratic bill Tuesday expanding required federal background checks to nearly all gun purchases, giving President Barack Obama an early victory on curbing gun violence in a fight that still faces difficult odds.
The vote was 10-8, with all Democrats supporting the measure and every Republican opposing it.

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